Artist Quotes · Page 386

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and…

— Romare Bearden

“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.”

— David Salle

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…

— Kelsey Grammer

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

— Robert Henri

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of…

— Jarod Kintz

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back…

— Ernest Becker

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,…

— Ben Shahn

It's really hard to be an artist and put out records and put your heart out there. It's such a gamble, and…

— Diane Birch

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This…

— Steve Vai

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for…

— Tracey Emin

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about…

— Laurie Simmons

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

— Ab-Soul

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

— Valee

For you Cody(: (p.s. I wanted to show you my friend's artwork on my pencil case bahah!)

— Heatherr

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

— Rudolf Arnheim

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre…

— Edith Evans

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

— Bryan Greenberg

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

I've had so many conversations with new artists trying to figure out their careers.

— Scott Borchetta

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

— David Douglas Duncan

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Love is The Highest Art Form, The Most Refined Artistic Expression. Love Charms Your Heart and Creates a Masterpiece.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

“I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking…

— Kate Forsyth

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money…

— Lady Gaga

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

— Rollo May

I was so fixated on being a wife and being there for someone else that I kind of neglected who I was…

— Keyshia Cole

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

— Jackson Pollock

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

— Hans Arp

I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an…

— Riff Raff

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what…

— John Guare